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spiff66

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Registered: 2018-02-11

Posts: 1

Brother printer MFC-J4620DW

Hi all, i’m new here.
I have a Brother printer MFC-J4620DW.
I succesfully setup this printer many times on several linux distro (Debian, Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu, Gentoo, etc).
Also on Q4os (a Debian) the printer setup, ends without errors, but when I try to print something, nothing happens.
There are no errors on spool, the document appears to sent ok, but the printer doesn’t print.

/var/log/cups/access_log

localhost - - [13/Feb/2018:19:46:46 +0100] "POST /printers/MFCJ4620DW HTTP/1.1" 200 386 Print-Job successful-ok

I normally use IP to point the printer, like:

socket://192.168.1.8

In /etc/rc3.d there are

S01avahi-daemon -> ../init.d/avahi-daemon
S02cups -> ../init.d/cups
(I read on a Arch guide that cupsd must be started after avahi daemon, so I moved S01cups to S02cups)

I installed also cups-bsd and task-print-server.

groups:
ste sys adm lp dialout fax cdrom floppy tape sudo audio dip video plugdev users netdev lpadmin scanner

Other info:
I also manually added this directory

/var/spool/lpd/mfcj4620dw

lpd and mfcj4620dw are lp:lp
rwxr-xr-x 3 lp          lp          4096 feb 11 14:01 lpd
drwx------ 2 lp lp 4096 feb 11 14:01 mfcj4620dw

/var/spool/cups is root:lp

If someone have an idea, I will appreciate
Anyway, good evening
ste

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

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Re: Brother printer MFC-J4620DW

First install additional packages in terminal:
$ sudo apt-get install foomatic-db printer-driver-all cups

Next, follow Q4OS documentation https://www.q4os.org/dqa007.html#printer